Write a hypothesis for Part I of the lab, which is about the effect on an object being carried by a car, when the car experiences a sudden impact. Use the format of "if . . . then . . . because . . . ” and be sure to answer the lesson question "How can Newton's laws be experimentally verified?” specific to Newton’s first law.
If an object is being carried by a car and the car experiences a sudden impact, then the object will continue to move forward with the same velocity as the car, because of Newton's first law of motion which states that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. This experiment will test the concept that objects at rest tend to stay at rest, while objects in motion tend to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an external force.
